Trump doesn’t care about “crime.” He cares about the right white people being in charge. On his first day in office in 2025, he pardoned 1,500 people convicted of assault and property destruction on January 6.
Trump’s decision to pardon or commute the sentences of all the January 6 rioters convicted of crimes was a spur of the moment decision designed to get the issue behind him quickly. “Trump just said: ‘F*ck it: Release ‘em all,’” an advisor recalled.
A prominent federal judge on Wednesday ripped President Donald Trump’s mass clemency for Jan. 6 rioters, saying the justification he offered in his proclamation was “flatly wrong” and a “revisionist myth.”
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The most important of all indictments against the former president: openly and long-time racist businessman and politician being brought up on federal charges by a very powerful civil rights enforcement tool created during the Reconstruction years.
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